As representações historiográficas e mitológicas das amazonas corporificadas na obra de Gaspar de Carvajal
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2024-06-13
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Universidade Federal de Goiás
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The work aims to demonstrate the importance of travel reports in the production of a
discourse that relates to the medieval Christian and Greco/Roman imaginary with reference
to the understanding of the otherness of the Amazons and the Amazonian space. We will
analyze the representations of the Amazons based on the account of the Spanish friar
Gaspar de Carvajal - Discovery of the Orellana River -, written between the years
1541-1542. Gaspar de Carvajal's narrative is related to the context of political-expansionist
disputes between Portugal and Spain, outlined by the Treaty of Tordesillas (1494). As a
rule, the narrative will be considered as an expression of medieval Christian imagery that
was still propagated in the 16th century. The image of the Amazons will be analyzed,
comparing them with the myth of the Amazon warriors of antiquity. This takes us to the
places where this image of women was constructed based on models referring to the 16th
century European socio-cultural universe. Therefore, Gaspar de Carvajal's chronicle will be
treated as a writing model that established characteristics of the unknown from a specific
cultural universe.
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Crônicas de viagem , Amazonas , Mito , Imaginário , Gênero , Travel chronicles , Amazons , Myth , Imaginary , Gender
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SILVA, L. S. R. As representações historiográficas e mitológicas das amazonas corporificadas na obra de Gaspar de Carvajal. 2024. 120 f. Dissertação (Mestrado em História) - Faculdade de História, Universidade Federal de Goiás, Goiânia, 2024.